I did have a cheap dell netbook in the past and it’s true I didn’t have issue with any driver. But it I have an option outside of usa I would prefer.

About the site, l keep getting ‘too many requests’ error. I’ll keep trying. My network card is qualcomm. Apparently a common problem with people who have this model.

My lenovos are thinkpads, and the second one I had was far from as good with Linux compared to the first one.

I would pay thousands of dollars to kill intel, not to help them.

I still have very bad memories from when they became a near monopoly with criminal ways and set back the world of cpus by many years. Luckily the market is different now so that’s unlikely to happen again, but I don’t ever want them on the top again.

And that’s not even counting their massive support for israel. Anyway, of the evil companies I don’t want to support they are close to the top of the list.

Well… my issues with my current thinkpad https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t16-gen-2-16-inch-amd/len101t0076 are: -non expandable memory. 32gb would be nice -non expandable drive, I’m still using the old one just because I have a 1tb m.2 that I can’t use on this one. (but you can put another wifi, or a 4g modem, I don’t remember, some bullshit they thought would compensate for this) -bultin wifi barely works. -no micro sd card, which would be useful for me. -I had massive battery issues. They replaced it, but it now often goes from 50% to 2% for no reason. No recalibration fixes it.

Other than those things, I quite like it. It’s powerful for its energy usage.

But seeing how many issues I wrote… yeah I guess it’s not something I one can recommend. All issues are debatable, but the battery and wifi can’t be ignored.

My ones are thinkpad. I’m not sure why people praise them so much. There’s all different kinds.

My first one like I said is a tank though. I never thought laptops needed to be that sturdy, but now I know that, like phones, they need to be as strong as they are expensive (and it’s usually the opposite).

Yup. That’s my lesson. Or avoid lenovo altogether and go with a company that respects Linux, like old lenovo used to.

On my one the wifi is just blacklisted. Might as well remove it. I use a tp-link tiny usb dongle. It’s a pain to have it always connected but I can live with it. Definitely not acceptable for what I paid for the laptop though… not even counting the headaches with the battery.

But… you borrowed someone’s computer and installed arch? I imagine they were never expecting to get it back…

My case is very specific because I live in a van, so power usage is a massive issue. My first thinkpad is roughly 45w, which is awesome. The second one can get to more than 60, which is bad, but it’s close to twice the performance of the first one, so it’s ok.

Now it seems that they use like twice the power of my second one, while being just a fraction better. That’s not ok. Kind of the main reason I wanted to upgrade was to see if I could get more performance with the same power usage, which is already kind of as high as I want to go. The current result is disappointing.

230w would be like 4 times more than I’m ok with. Even if usb-c could do that, which is anther requirement I have (no AC power).

So I might stick with what I have…

Oh… chipping. The case was breaking. Sorry… I thought you mispelled “shipping”, that it took a very long time for them to send you the laptop.

Yeah, that’s important for me. My current lenovo, although higher end than the previous, doesn’t compare. The first one is all metal. I dropped it several times on concrete and it survived without barely any issue. While this one even being so careful gives me a headache.

No point buying something expensive that will die on the first time I’m not careful and I’m usually not careful.

When you say it took very few years to ship, do you mean days, weeks, months, or actually years?

They seem to have some nice stuff too. It seems that all Linux oriented shops do. All this enshitified garbage of not letting you upgrade memory or hard drives seem to be bullshit of big companies just like the mobile phone ones do too…

But so far I’m researching, it seems that since amd embraced “AI”, talking about enshitification, the CPUs are barely better than my current one, while using a lot more power. It seems that if I want to have the same power consumption I’ll actually have to downgrade, while paying more.

I may be better trying to find a used laptop that has the stuff I want and just replace the battery. Weird days where buying a new laptop after years will get you something worse and more expensive than you bought…

This company https://slimbook.com/en/kde?

They seem to have everything I want. Multiple drives, sd card, lightweight, etc. I just can’t find the actual power requirements.

Which one did you get? What are you not happy with on the hardware integration? And do you know what happens if you need warranty?

The only think I don’t like is that this AI 9 365 seems to be just slight better than my current one, Ryzen 7 7840U, so many years later, while much more expensive. But I guess the days of getting twice the performance every 2 years died a long time ago.

It has “AI” in the name, so that makes up for the lack of real improvement /s

Edit: further researching, it seems that although the performance is not much better, the power consumption is much higher. That seems to be the case for all this new “AI” stuff. So maybe I’ll keep with my problematic lenovo that doesn’t require a new solar panel…

Just before I block you, I want to say I hope your life goes horribly bad.

People like you are the cancer that makes me hate people.

Someone here is really afraid of being properly taxed. It’s those muslims stealing your riches right?

Yeah, I saw that. It has a lot of stuff I don’t know what it is. It’s certainly not for my kind of person where I need them to “hold my hands” like with the Lineage documentation, except for Lineage not making it obvious what IMS is, and that shows the level of mistake I can make and how much money and time I can waste where someone more knowledgeable would have avoided.

Plus, I haven’t seen any success story coming from that, and that from people who knows what they are doing. It’s not worthy to spend god knows how many days or weeks it would take me to properly redo what he did and find out it would not work in my case, if I even get to that point.

He mentions an apk he changed, so initially I thought it would be just that, an apk to install (magic). But I didn’t find it and I guess that’s just one small step in the massive stuff he did, decompiling things and what not.

But thanks anyway. It did make me hopeful when I first saw it, but no big deal. When I thought it was just about my effort, I would spend whatever time it takes. But now that I finally understand that it’s samsung really not wanting me to use their phones (like in an abusive relationship, after years of proof of the abusive partner), then I made peace with the idea. Fuck samsung and fuck google. I’ll use pidgeons to communicate before I trust them again.

Did they even mention it back then in your country?

If they did, I imagine the news were more in the line of “a traitor just put our whole country in the hands of terrorists, what can YOU do to keep your children safe?”

Here in the united states of the south we get a lot of that. “terrorists in the streets protesting against the poor israelis killing people. is YOUR child safe?”. It must be even worse for you.

Although even the rest of the world didn’t comment much on that. I was in Brazil back then, and there was really not much on the media, even though there were emails of the president of the time shown to be spied by the US. I thought the whole world would go crazy and quickly everyone forgot.

Hell, not even an orange menace waging war against enemies and allies all the time is enough for people to do something…

Oh, setup is easy. I actually even enjoy setting up a new phone.

I have all my files and messages synced on syncthing constantly, and contacts and etc on DAVx. Even apps, most from f-droid, are a few clicks from a backup. I can do the whole thing in a few minutes, but I enjoy taking longer.

The issue with finding a phone that I can unlock and installing a working ROM instead, that’s the issue, and it should not have to be like that at all. That’s what is becoming impossible and making dumb phones a better alternative.

Ah, and the money too. Which is why I never buy expensive phones anymore. I know I’ll lose it, drown it, kill it. That’s another good reason for dumb phones.

Yes and no. If you never connect the ultra series to the internet, you still have some great cameras and a great (offline) video game, and even a great gps and other things.

You don’t have a “phone” as samsung sold. But phones are nowadays much more than that.

Like the old film cameras. It didn’t matter how the company wanted you to use them. But yeah, it’s still something we should fight against. In may case for instance I need connection, so for the main purpose, being a phone, I don’t have the hardware because I don’t control the software.

You may be new to this insanity, so I’ll explain; Yes, crazily enough google pixels are (for now) the easiest mainstream phones to install a different system. Almost (as far as phones go) as easy as installing Linux on a pc to get rid of windows.

But note that this is what we mean by degoogling, installing a new system. If you don’t want or can’t do this (and most users wouldn’t know how), it’s as hard, if not harder to degoogle than other phones. All the spyware is deeply integrated and getting rid of it is impossible.

I suppose this is because google is trying to stay true to the initial vision of android, back when they had “don’t be evil” lie as a moto. But I don’t expect it to last.

On my end, pixel5 was my first and last pixel. It’s a shitty line of phones, and I don’t want to rely on google, regardless if they will allow you to install something else for long.

Kind of similar. Yeah, replacing everything took me a long time too and a lot of research. And I was one of the first gmail users, had dropbox account when no one knew what it was, etc etc, so I was pretty stuck. I was all google when I believed their “do not be evil” lies.

But I started the move very early too, after Snowden leaked the PRISM crimes. Back then I thought everyone would do the same and try to rely less on the cloud or, at least, stop using american companies. And oh boy, was I wrong…

If I had waited I imagine it would be a lot more difficult. I always kept my mp3, movies, porn, etc offline, but it was still easy to rely on gmail, youtube, google maps etc.

Anyway, good on you. You will find it surprising that you ever thought it was difficult after you’ve been detoxed for a while and end up being exposed to google products again. It will make you wonder how anyone actually put up with it.

That’s good to know. Although that’s a more difficult, if not impossible, mistake to make. If you search on installing something different on those phones, as most people will do, they will find that it’s impossible before they even start the journey. Buying a phone to degoogle without researching if it’s even possible is a bad mistake.

But the older ones it’s worse, because not only every research will show it’s possible, most reviews I found of the S10 with Lineage were actually very positive, saying everything worked great. Because VoLTE being mandatory is something new, and many countries will still work but not for long.

So it’s really bad because if you don’t pay attention to the IMS thing you will have no reason to think it won’t work. It is possible, it works great, it just doesn’t make calls. Silly detail that isn’t mentioned well enough.

They were always hostile, but it was possible. And once you finish the long and stressful fight with samsung for the control of your phone, you are left with a great phone in your hands. Depending who you ask, it was worthy.

But now they finally made it impossible. They always wanted to do this, and finally succeeded. They “won” the battle.

That’s the only reason why I bought the pixel 5. It’s easy to remove google stuff. But I see people praising the phones, as if, once you have installed your custom software (ignoring graphene), it’s better than the alternatives.

Once/if you do manage do install something else on other phones, almost every other option of similar price is better than a pixel. But it seems that most things I read disagree with that.

But yeah, getting to the point of installing something the pixels are easier. But there are others like fairphones here that match that from what I’m told.